The Washington attorney general's new worker rights unit to combat wage theft amid what the official said was a lack of enforcement by President Donald Trump's administration is the latest such effort by Democratic attorneys general and one that attorneys say employers should take seriously.
A split Ninth Circuit panel said Thursday that a law firm must face a fired attorney's disability bias suit claiming she was forced to work beyond a lighter schedule that helped her manage medical conditions, ruling a jury should decide whether the business has enough employees to be sued.
The Fourth Circuit on Thursday reopened a lawsuit alleging the Humane Society of the United States fired two remote employees rather than granting their religious requests to skip the COVID-19 vaccine, saying the workers had sufficiently connected their vaccine opposition to their faith.